01/23/13 —
Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts' offer to fund improvements at Wrigley Field represents a golden opportunity for local politicians to end their dysfunctional relationship with professional sports franchises.

01/16/13 —
Chapter 11 reorganizations usually force creditors to accept less than they're owed, but as the Tribune Co. and Comdisco Inc. bankruptcies show, one group almost always collects 100 cents on the dollar: lawyers.

01/10/13 —
Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner aircraft is now at risk — unfairly, in my view — of being tagged as an unsafe plane. This would have serious ramifications for Boeing. It's time for CEO Jim McNerney to get out in front of the growing...

01/09/13 —
Don't take Edward Lampert's move into the CEO chair at Sears Holdings Corp. as a hopeful sign for the foundering retailer. If the hedge-fund mogul knew how to fix Sears, he'd have done it by now.